Practicing the Gospel in a post-critical world

Abstract

"The argument I want to put forward is a straightforward one. I want to insist that, if we are to engage in a genuinely theological exegesis of Christian Scripture, then both disciplines, biblical studies and systematic theology, must change. In making such a claim, I grant that, when I describe “biblical studies” and “systematic theology,” I am referring to two aggregates of interests and practices that resist narrow definition. I further grant that those who practice biblical studies and those who practice systematic theology may find in my presentation that their work has been, at least to some degree, caricatured"